Google has announced a new $1 billion investment to enhance digital connectivity to Japan. This initiative, known as Pacific Connect, involves the development of two new undersea cables in collaboration with various partners. These cables will establish new fiber-optic Internet routes between the US and Japan, aiming to improve reliabilityRead Entire Article
The Sun has settled 1,600 claims and paid out £1 billion to keep cases out of court, it has been revealed.
We will never know how much pandemic aid fraud was committed. There were just too many trillions of dollars, and too many programs run by incompetent fools to get any kind of accurate accounting.
The $1.326 billion prize ranks as the eighth largest in U.S. lottery history and came after 41 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.
US Deficit Tops $1.1 Trillion For First Six Months Of Fiscal 2024 As Spending Hits 2024 High It's oddly fitting that in a time when the interest on US debt just hit a record $1.1 trillion, that the US deficit for just the first six months of fiscal 2024 is also $1.1 trillion. According to the latest Treasury Monthly Statement, in March the US deficit hit $236 billion, some $40 billion more than the $196 billion expected, if below February's $296 billion which was the result of...
Millions taking part in the eighth-largest Powerball drawing in U.S. history will have to wait a little longer to find out if they've struck it rich. The $1.3 billion Powerball drawing was delayed on Saturday night after the Multi-State Lottery Association said a single jurisdiction had yet to wrap up its normal pre-draw security procedures."Powerball game rules require that every single ticket sold nationwide be checked and verified against two different computer systems before the winning...
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Budget 2024… titled “Fairness for Every Generation.” It has people talking online because the federal Liberals are spending more than $52 billion more than planned over the next five years. With interest rates at a 20-year high, Ottawa’s cost to borrow has spiked from just over $20 billion in 2020 to a whopping $54.1 billion […]
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is promising billions in new spending in the federal budget, while also laying more taxes on the highest earners. Freeland announced this year’s federal budget inside the House of Commons Tuesday afternoon. After weeks of teasing many budgetary items, the Liberal government unveiled its plans on how it intends to offset […]
Munich-based digital products engineering company Nagarro crossed the $1 billion revenue mark in financial year 2023 based on year-end currency rates, growing 9.4% year-on-year on a constant currency basis.Revenue increased from about $908 million in 2022. The company follows a January to December financial year.Listed independently on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2020, when its revenue was $516 million at year-end exchange rates, Nagarro has more than doubled its revenue in the past three...
The album bested a surprise release from J. Cole.
Apple has tried and failed to have a lawsuit in the UK dismissed, one that's valued at nearly $1 billion, brought against the company by 1,500 UK-based developers. A UK court ruled earlier today that the suit can be brought, and will thus proceed to trial - although this step will most likely only take place next year. The suit alleges that Apple charged the developers in question unfair commission fees of up to 30% on purchases of apps and other content. The plaintiffs say Apple is abusing...
House Democrats want to boost state spending by 3.3 percent next fiscal year with a $57.9 billion budget that mirrors many of Gov. Maura Healey's ideas for tapping new funding sources and drives up outlays on the expectation that flat state tax collections will begin to rise again.